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The Bad Drivers of Ontario Thread
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"Professional Driver". Yes. They are paid to drive, but aside from a bit of training that taught them how to operate the vehicle, it does not exactly making them elite drivers. In this regard, they are no different than any other driver on the road. Or at least, that's how an Officer might think. It's a great explanation! What's the rationale as to why they would see countless HTA infractions daily. Officers have discretion - and use it - with criminal matters to.
The officer's discretion might simply have been - given the totality of what the Officer perceived (not the viewing arm-chair copper on Youtube) - if I give this trucker a ticket he could lose his job and ability to provide for his family. All that bad over something millions of people do daily... Hindsight is 20/20, he might be wrong, and maybe the car driver is the one that really could have used the break. Don't like it - write to your MP, or become a cop. lol.
It's supposed to. The law doesn't change just because your job is to enforce it. I've yelled at many a cop while driving home from work on 27 Northbound. Cops flying by at 120 in a 70. TPS is a joke.
File this one away in your memory banks.
Yesterday, on the way to Dover, in this ridiculous speed limit zone ... (note the straightness and absence of ANYthing that would justify this)
https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.5255...s4-SOYgoK9r-RIiopPjQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en
... there was a cop sitting right here, camouflaged from southbound traffic by that tree and from northbound traffic by that fence.
https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.5220...vOrPyGYm6R4FidtD2Tqw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en
I've seen them sitting here before.
https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.5159...0lXoQ8Hxkgu5vbdSmUuQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en
Whenever I see a speed limit like this, one of the things that crosses my mind is what a splendid fishing hole this would be. I can't tolerate doing 50 km/h on this road (and no one else does, either) but evidently 65-ish when I saw the cop wasn't enough to do anything about.
What! There are no unreasonable places to enforce the law. This forum has clearly established that the LAW is meant to be adhered to 100% of the time. Stop for every stop sign fully and completely, etc.. and at nauseum. LOL.
Don't worry we all know we speed. We just pick and choose which laws we want to obey and when it's convenient for us and F* every other driver that seems to annoy us when it's not.
Waiting for that one driver who is doing 100-105 in the 80kph zone to miss the 50 sign, they bam! HTA 172. In Hamilton they do the same at the end of the Burlington street expressway constantly. The road is a dual carriageway and elevated. pretty much a mini Gardiner. Speed limit is 60, with very few signs informing drivers coming straight off the QEW. Nailed an 85 year old lady from outta town a year or two ago and proudly bragged about suspending her license and taking her car; street racing among the elderly is outta control
mikeherdes
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Waiting for that one driver who is doing 100-105 in the 80kph zone to miss the 50 sign, they bam! HTA 172. In Hamilton they do the same at the end of the Burlington street expressway constantly. The road is a dual carriageway and elevated. pretty much a mini Gardiner. Speed limit is 60, with very few signs informing drivers coming straight off the QEW. Nailed an 85 year old lady from outta town a year or two ago and proudly bragged about suspending her license and taking her car; street racing among the elderly is outta control
Hamilton is a gold mine for HTA 172's.... 90 speed limits on highways. And 500 people a day are "Street Racing" on the Red Hill Valley Parkway (http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamil...h-on-red-hill-valley-parkway-police-1.3501931)
There were two cops sitting there the first time I road that corner in Milton. Gave me a good scare.
There's a lot of rural roads in Milton with unbelievable 50 and 60 limits. Right now on 20th side road before 2nd line and Guelph line there's a big sign warning drivers to slow down if their doing over the 60km/h limit, yet the same road becomes an 80 right after Guelph line and has just as many hair pin corners and worse pavement.
Another extremely reasonable Maximum Safe Limit in Halton - Mountain Brow Rd, just north of where that rider was running from the cops.
https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.3386...4!1siXjA2QucP6_DTYccym7nbw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
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They get maybe 1 a month, usually at 4 am on an empty highway, usually from out of town. As for that 500 a day BS. That "study" has been laughed at by most anyone who lives near, or drives the Red Hill/Linc. I live right beside it and I drive the expressway daily. Believe me, there is no way 1 car every 3 mins is passing by @ 140+.. not even close; and if you eliminate the 4-6 hours a day that the Red Hill is a parking lot, that number becomes 1 car every 2 mins. Total BS.
Exactly
I'm saying that officers "exercise discretion" in such cases because they know that tickets impact such drivers more than they do other members of the public. I tend to feel that such drivers need to be held to at the very least the standard set out by law, due to their greater exposure. Especially so, given that their vehicles are frequently the ones with the most potential to cause harm.
I getcha. There's probably a whole host of Officers all over the world that share the same viewpoint and exercise their discretion accordingly.
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